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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Henry say when Jack says that he did feel like a cop when he went back to the police station rather than a person playing a cop?

2. What message does Jack find on the wall of Ed's in Chapter ten?

3. What does T.J. find when he goes back to get Tyler?

4. What does Jack say when Estelle Packard asks him if he is her father?

5. What does Speedy tell Jack about Tyler in the waking dream that Jack has in Chapter nine?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens in Chapter seven when Henry begins playing for the residents at Maxton's?

2. Describe the conversation that Rebecca, Peter Wexler, and Henry have in chapter seven when Peter says that there was another little boy taken from outside of Maxton's.

3. What does Dale tell Jack in Chapter ten when he calls Jack?

4. When they arrive at Ed's Eats and Dawgs, what does Dale tell Jack he should do?

5. Describe the scene at Irma Freneau's mother's house in Chapter fifteen?

6. What does Beezer do when he gets the phone call that Irma's body has been found?

7. What is explained about Nailhouse Row when it is first described in Chapter one?

8. What happens to Judy in Chapter five?

9. Explain what is known about Henry Leyden that is shown in chapter three.

10. What does Speedy tell Jack in the beginning of Chapter nine?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Explain the relationship that Henry and Jack have. How is this relationship different from the one that Jack had with his mother?

2) How is Jack's leadership different than Beezer's leadership?

3) How does the bond that Sophie and Judy share compare to other relationships in the book? What real world relationship would you use to best describe the twinner relationship that is seen between these two characters?

Essay Topic 2

1) What was Tansy Freneau's role in the story?

2) Why is Tansy not visited again after the destruction of Black House?

3) Do you feel that there is any chance that Tansy was restored to her original state of mind? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

1) What does it say about Jack that he was determined to wait until 12:00 even before they left for the Black House?

2) Was this belief in the importance of high noon any different than the belief that Jack gave Beezer, Doc, and Dale with the honey that the bees had carried? Why or why not?

3) What other moments of belief were seen in the story that were much like these two examples?

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